[Oe List ...] RS-1 Friday night conversation

[Randy Williams]

Jack,

Your story of Bob and David in the bar, and their garb, reminds me that in imaginable education everything is pedagogical, and that a lot of the image shift takes place outside the formal structures.

My first RS-1 was in Houston in 1960 something. Joe Pierce was the first teacher, and his very presence was an assault on many of my old images. The course was life changing as billed. But one of the things I remember was a conversation with Joe around the edges. He kept talking about these new things EI was starting called religious houses, so I asked, what is a religious house. He said it was a “sort of hang-out for revolutionaries.” For all time that changed my image of what it meant to be “religious,” and then “the religious.” I know there are thousands of stories like this we could all tell. Maybe we should, and maybe they should have a place in the Archives.

Randy

> On Sep 6, 2019, at 10:38 PM, Jack Gilles <jackcgilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Randy,
> 
> So many of our courses did the image shift, at least for me. I remember taking CS-I on the near west side (NW Side) of Cleveland. R. Fishel and D. Scott came and did it. I remember greeting them at a bar in their motorcycle boots and black berets with wedgeblade pins! I never expected clergy to be dressed like that! But in was in the section on the Urban Revolution that they had us just walk the neighborhood. I saw things, heard things and felt things I had never noticed before. It was a magical experience, and we had two pastors who became part of the first galaxy in churches there, Jack & Jane Sherlough (sp?) and  Jerry & Marty Lapka. Later the very large body of folks who made up the Cleveland Metro Cadres wrote a song to This Land is Your Land about the Cleveland Metro. A fire was lit that has never dimmed in so many of us. 
> 
> I’ll let Jim give his responses to RS-I, but wanted to share my image shifting experience.
> 
> Jack
> 
>> On Sep 6, 2019, at 10:39, Randy Williams via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Jim,
>> I think you’re probably correct. What would you say were some of the more important image shifts that occurred in RS-1?
>> Randy
>> 
>>> On Sep 6, 2019, at 10:38 AM, James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I don’t remember the part about arguing with the participants during the Friday dinner conversation.  I got thinking about this because the Archive group was recently reviewing the Imaginal Education collection in the archive website and it occurred to me that I think the RS-1 course was the best and most refined example of imaginal education that we ever came up with . . .
>>> 
>>> Here is a link to some additional remembrances of RS-1.
>>> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUk2c_1SJ0s82ALQvVkg5VLcDiUxrEmrs
>>> 
>>> 
>>> With Respect,
>>> Jim Wiegel
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 6, 2019, at 6:52 AM, Margaret Aiseayew via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I remember telling the group at my first RS-1 that what grounded me in history was that I was an Iowa farm girl.  Whoever was leading tried to argue with me and I argued that they knew nothing about electricity.  (My farmer father had spent evenings wiring houses and as kids my brother and I often went with him.)  My grounding in history has never changed, even as much as most of my other thinking did in response to that event.
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>>>> From: OE [mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Jann McGuire via OE
>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2019 6:11 PM
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>>>> Subject: [Oe List ...] RS-1 Friday night conversation
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>>>> Jim, I'm neurotic enough to still have my RS-1 file folders. The Friday evening conversation was 1) full name and one thing that grounds in history (I remember not understanding exactly what that meant.)
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>>>> 2) First name and book.
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>>>> 3) First name and movie.
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>>>> 4 ) First name and one pressing concern.
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